"i Love you"

I often tell my mom " I love you", it's not hard for me when it comes to my mom, but for my dad, i couldn't just say it as often as i could to my mom, i feel awkward.

I grew up with a mom who showed her love for us through material things. We owned expensive toys when we were kids. She bought me a piano when I had asked for one, got me a piano teacher till I raised my hands up and started hiding from my tutor when it was piano time for me at home. Everyday seems to be a party at home sans the visitors since mom is a kitchen lover. She would bake cakes and cook our favorite dishes. Mom just loves doing things for us, her way of showing how much she loves us. However,I couldn't remember her saying the words "I love you" to anyone of us. And we didn't long to hear those words from her since we could feel how much she cares and loves us truly. As a consequence, I, grew up showing my affection to her in another way except blurting out the words I love you mom. I just find it awkward to say it but it doesn't mean I don't love her. I do, I truly do and I believe she knows it as there are indeed so many ways to make one feel that you truly love her. Contrary to my difficulty in saying I love you to my mom, my kids often say those words to me as I hug and kiss them almost everyday. My mom played the role of a real mother but she doesn't know how to be a friend to us. I played both to my kids that is why it is easy for them to show their affection towards me through words. Nevertheless, by not uttering the words I love you doesn't mean that one no longer loves his/her parents.

Yes!! Oh my gosh, it is so hard to show our love to our parents.. I still don't but I do love them deeply, I guess it wasn't practiced as much when I was growing up therefore I don't show it. they don't show it to their parents either.. And, I say I love you to my boyfriend so easily, not hard either

Maybe you are like my family who were raised up by our parents where we weren't hugged and kissed and told i love you by them. Though, in their own way, we know that they do love us so much. That being the case, when the time calls for it that we say "i love you" to our mother, we feel so sheepish. It's because we are not accustomed to saying it that's why. But , once you have said it, it will naturally flow the next time around.

I am also i cant tell the words "I Love You" to my parents same reason im too shy with my parents or may be im not a kind of showy person and im not sweet to my parents but i always respected them... I wud to say this words to my parents but verytime when im in front of my mom or my dad I cant open my mouth then im blushing n my parents told me "are you ok" nothing to say im speechless.... i wish one day i could say this words to my parents.

Well I feel and do that!!too bad for me.. I really don't know why? and how did I do hat for.. Maybe I am too shy so say I love you with my parents also I feel shy..and I don't know how to do that as well. But I never fails to kiss them in the cheeks, but don't say I love you.. I really don't why... Sometimes we are more open with someone else than to our parents, we share our problem, our good deeds with our friends and love ones.. I also share stories with my parents, the improvement with my studies, my achievements and other school related activities. But still sometimes I open that things with my girlfriend, she also ask me about my school, my grades and how I feel today, she often ask me that thing because she is away from me.. almost of us are not open with their parents, they don't usually tell their problems in their parents, will you agree on that? They think that they might not entertain and they think that their parents will get mad to them, if they comment mistakes and failures.. BUT they have not thinking that parents are the best teachers ans advisers in our life.. They know and they do all things for our sake. They will do anything for us to be a good person.. I think we must now starts to be open with our parents, they love us and they really wants to know what it happening with our life.. Saying I love you is the starts to have a very good relationship with our parents..

Yes I have the same problem when I had a girlfriend I can say easily say that I love she and It was not only the words. I said what I fell, but If we are talking about parents then yes I too can't tell It to them. I never had tried It, because I am shy too, but I think they know that. I also thought It could be very strange If I would said It, because It is not easy.

I think it would be easier for us to say those words to our parents if we grew in a household where saying those words are a common thing. Unfortunately I didn't grow up in one. So expressing it verbally can be hard. Although I feel that they love me through their actions, my parents aren't very vocal about it until recently when mom would usually end our conversations over the phone with "I love you" and I reply back the same words to her. My husband's family is different. It is common for them to say those words. Now that I have my own family, I try to be vocal about my love to my son every day. Not a single day do I pass that I didn't hugged or kissed him.

In fact i did. When my parents were alive my siblings and i found it awkward and cheesy to tell our parents those three letter words. Maybe it's how we were brought up, but among my siblings i'm the only one who would write short notes or give greeting cards to my parents and would write i love you. So when they passed away, my sister regretted not telling my parents how much she appreciated them. So now, everyday before my son falls asleep, I made it a habit of his to tell me and his dad i love you. I wanted him to get used to it and not to feel awkward even until he becomes a teenager. Now i'm crossing my finger on that.

I second that. I have problems saying I love you to my parents and had problems saying it to my ex byfriend too. I don't know, I just feel weird and shy and strange saying those words. I can write it in letters or emails bt never to the person in his face :/

i think it's our problem not your alone we are shy to tell our parents that we are grateful to what they do we cant say it or too shy to say but i think you should tell them now before time passes and you regret this

I can say that for me my mother is my best friend.I can always tell everything to her mother.Also ask whether it is good if you need something and tell her that I love her.

hi tina+) we have same experienced. At all times I'm so timid.. No wonder

hello tiina. u are right.u can easily utter these words to your girlfriend/boyfriend but hard to tell to your mother/father.i have never told my mom or papa "i love you".